#cause

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#before #brought #campaign #carter #complicated

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#around #because #being #books #both

We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#comes #faction #human #impulse #intrinsic

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#believe #combat #females #fierce #i

Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#because #blockbuster #body #everything #getting

With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#cable #character #characters #clearly #far

So the laughs had to come from the character, not because we had balloons in our shirts or were speaking in high voices. That was very important to us. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#because #character #come #had #high

I had to learn how to drive because I didn't drive in Toronto. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#drive #had #how #i #learn

Of course Toronto might as well be Buffalo, because we get each other's TV. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#buffalo #course #each #get #might

We end the show with something that's never been on TV because it was too big for a sketch but we couldn't stretch it out to make a whole episode because it would have been too long, but we always thought it was really good. ↗

— Kevin McDonald

#because #been #big #end #episode